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Originally Posted by Crawford
I don't understand the comparisons between Tenderloin and downtown LA's historic core.
The Tenderloin is a longstanding, super-poor neighborhood of packed-in SROs (essentially welfare hotels). It hasn't gentrified, and won't gentrify, by design. SF Chinatown is similar (if without the drug/homeless/yuck issues).
LA's historic core is a traditional working class shopping district now being gentrified. They aren't particularly similar, even if the buildings have some resemblance. In LA, gentrification probably brings expensive loft apartments and hipsters, while Tenderloin is govt.-run housing for addicts, mostly.
Of course LA has Skid Row, which is sorta downtown core, and which has similarities to Tenderloin, but I don't think this is what we're talking about. Isn't LA's Skid Row mostly tent cities, and lowrise structures, not really wall-to-wall midrise SROs like Tenderloin?
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The comparison comes from the Tenderloin and Historic Core being high density residential areas adjacent to their cities financial districts.
Many of the buildings in the HC were formerly SRO hotels, which I believe there were also quite a few of in the Tenderloin. There is still quite a bit of low-income housing mixed into the HC. Buildings like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0482438,...pH2XEA6BFwpInM5XsCo2A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
and this
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0488575,...GmevGNvdjsBg6Lu7dMicw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Skid Row does have a considerable amount of permanent supportive housing and other homeless housing beyond the street tents. It's not wall-to-wall housing like the Tenderloin, but there is still a significant amount of housing there. The Historic Core is probably LA's best shot at achieving super high density ala the Tenderloin and Chinatown in SF. When you add Skid Row in with the HC, the similar high homeless populations furthers the comparison between the two.